UPDATE! Marc posted this shot of the inks for this strip on his Instagram and I just had to share it with you guys:

Sometimes, Marc just goes all out. I know for a fact this monster of a strip consumed his life for the past few days. Well worth it, Marc. Well worth it.

It’s been much talked about, but this is the first time you’re actually seeing The Guthrie, the machine that’s gonna kill… pretty much everybody. Zurida was the first one to mention it, and you can get all the details right here. The rest of this chapter focuses big time on the Guthrie, so take it all in.

Yesterday marked the 7th Anniversary of The SuperFogeys. The first strip was created on September 22nd waaaaaay back in 2006 and posted on September 25th (on MySpace, of all places). Anyone still out there who remembers that? Man, it’s been a long, strange trip since then.

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well i can’t say i was around for the birth of super fogeys BUT i was directed your way via imagine this and have been HOOKED for years EVER since!!!! I love the work…6 years down and a TON MORE to go!!!!

I don’t know about a TON… this story does have an end point after all… but there is big stuff still to come and I honestly don’t know how long it will take to tell it all. We’ll find out together! Thanks for the enthusiasm, Drew.

Great to know another of another “Imagine This!” fan!
And yes, there WILL be a ton more strips, Brock is just trying to say that the end point of this strip is when he passes away at the age of…… no wait, that’d be spoiling to much!

Ah! Phew, I thought they were going to “uncreate” all earthlings and derivates from this world and the next, as if they had never being born (except they would still be remembered by those who remained alive, but that doesn’t help you much when no longer even exist).

GREAT reference. Here’s the thing though… I did point Marc towards a sci-fi classic something-something for inspiration. I think it’s pretty obvious if you know the reference, but you have to reach pretty far back to find it.

I saw it in the early 70′s in the Pantages Theater in LA. It was a beautiful print and I think it was full length. Imagine how saddened i was when AMC ran a “fully restored” print a few years ago and it seemed to be 30% still photos replacing the parts that were lost! Amazing that they are still losing negatives when there was a clean print just 35 years earlier!

The SuperFogeys were created on September 22nd, 2006 off of a suggestion from Tad Hansen, my fake internet friend, that I “do something stupid like a comic about superheroes in a nursing home.”

Three days later I posted the first strip as part of a five day experiment to see if could do a daily comic strip. I didn’t really have any sort of plan or story in mind. I invented and designed characters on the fly, within the strips themselves. No color, just black and white. They weren’t even drawn very well. I was just trying to get stuff done as quickly as possible. I had so much fun doing it I extended the experiment to a second week.

I quickly realized that a pretty crazy story was starting to emerge from my collection of Superman, Robin, Dr. Sivana and Black Widow analogues. The Flash, Etrigan the Demon, Wonder Woman, Wolverine, Captain America and Maxima analogues (+10 to whomever can correctly pair up the famous [and not-so-famous] comic characters with their SuperFogeys counterparts) came a little later, along with a whole host of other characters. A motley crew if there ever was one.

Presented below, for the first time in a looooong time, is that original set of five black & white strips as they originally appeared to readers of my blog on MySpace seven years ago. You’ll notice a few differences from what you’ll find on the site today, the biggest of which are the different outfit for Captain Spectacular (changed because it too closely resembled Superman’s–especially when colored) and the omission of what is now strip #3 (it was created later after I decided to go back and color the strips and continue the story).

Big thanks to all of who have stuck with us over the years, and big thanks to those of you who discovered us a little later. You make it all worth doing. Extra, extra special thanks to Marc Lapierre, without whom The SuperFogeys would have ended years ago. I’m so glad we’re still going strong.